Improvement in gaiter-boots



ajc. YOUNG; Gai'ter-Boots.

PATE.

BARKER O. YOUNG, OF' BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAiT'ER'BOOTS.

Speciiieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 159, i135., dated Junuaryi, 1875;' application filed December 19, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BARKDR C. YOUNG, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gaiter- Boots 5 and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying' drawings, ot whichf f Figure l is a top view; Fig. 2, a side elemeans of preventing the strap from slipping` up or down in the back-Hap, but of fastening the strap to the baelr-ilapf independently of the buckle, and to operate with it, in securing the shoe on the foot of a person. 1

I ain aware that in suoli a shoe it is not new toput ou the back-Hap a loop for the strip to be run through, such loop being Simply to prevent the strap from rising or falling, or

V` working up and down on the Hap, all being as shown in the United `States Patent No.

145,801, dated December 23, 1873. Consequently I do not olaim a gaiter-boot provided with such a loop, so arranged with its backap and strap.

In the drawings, A denotes a gaiter-boot, provided with one fore leg-ap, a, and one rear leg-flap, b, and with a strap, c, to one portion or fly of the fore flap, and a buckle, f, to the other ily ot' said flap, all as shown.

In carrying out my invention I iix to the lower part and middle of the back-flap 'a button, d, and make in the strap a button-hole, e,

Ato button upon said button when the flaps are drawn together upon the legs of' an indi- .f

vidual. V

It sometimes happens that while a .person may be walking the buckle may become accidentalllalost, or broken so as to be useless for- With the shoe provided with the buttoirhole and button, in combina-v holding the Strap.

tion with the strap and its buckle, as setforth, the back and fore flaps will be held together on the inner side of the shoe, in ease of breakage or loss of the buckle. llurthormore, the but-ton and button-hole are manipulated*much easier than the loop, from which the Strap has first to be entirely withdrawn before the shoe can'be put on or taken oil' the foot ofa person. .i

AThe return of the strap to and through the loop is,. ol'ton attended with lunch inconvenience when the shoe is on the foot, but with the buttonliole and button the strap can readily and easily be connected or disconnected'.

-I claim- In combination with the ,traiter-boot A, provided with the ,two leg -tin-ps a b, and the strap c, and its buckle f, arranged as def scribed, the button d, iixed to the middle ot' the bnek-iap, and the button-hole e iliade in the strap, all substantially as specified'.

- B. C. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

lt. H. EDDY, J'. lt. SNOW.

OFFICE.. 

